2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth

¹⁵ And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour; ¹⁶ and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea. ¹⁷ Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay? ¹⁸ Now God is faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him. ²⁰ For whatever promises of God there are, in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us. ²¹ Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God, ²² who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth. ²⁴ Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

¹ But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you in grief. ² For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me? ³ And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all. ⁴ For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.